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	skirnismal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Skirnismal ("The Lay of Skirni"), also known as "Skirni's Ride" is a poem in the Elder Edda.
		Skirni, fearing his master's wrath, nevertheless does as he is bidden.
		Skirni duly fetches up in Jotunheim, at the hall of the giant Gymir.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /skirnismal.html (312 words)

	Draupnir - Wikipedia
		Odin laid upon the pyre the gold ring called Draupnir; this quality attended it: that every ninth night there fell from it eight gold rings of equal weight.
		The ring was subsequently retrieved (presumably by Freyr) and offered as a gift by Freyr's servant Skirni in the wooing of Gerdur Gymisdottir, which is described in the poem Skirnismal
		Draupnir is also the name of a dwarf, mentioned in the Voluspa, the prophecy of the seeress given to Odin.
	www.web-dictionary.org /encyclopedia/dr/Draupnir.html (209 words)

	Clothing
		It had a narrow collar laced with string or fastened with a button, and was decorated with needlework.
		On his feet, a man wore either home-treated leather shoes (variously called postoly, kerpci or chodaky) which were laced to the leg, or boots (chboty or skirni) into which the pants would be tucked; the pants were held up with a fl leather belt with rows of ornate buttons.
		Boots were usually only worn on holidays or to village dances.
	www.carpatho-rusyn.org /rich/clothing.htm (822 words)

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